LEGACY COLLEGE*

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"I missed a lot last night, haven't even packed my bags" Pearl groaned.

"You'll get over this" Morgan patted her.

"Stop it" Pearl replied, and Morgan laughed.

"The restroom, need to pee before the class!" Pearl excused herself and rushed to the nearest.

She did her business and came out only to meet the devil waiting in front of it.

He's blank, and she took a look at his chest, but it's covered with his black shirt, so she can't see the nature of the wound.

Was he cursed with black outfits or something?

She made to walk past him, but he placed his hand on the wall in front of her, stopping her.

"Seriously?" She looked up hatefully.

"The shit you wrote on the Loft wall, you might wanna get it off before nightfall" he warned.

"Or what?" She attacked.

"Or you'll scream my name so hard while I slam repeatedly into your asshole, and I won't stop till you beg me to stop. Even if you beg, you'll still be at my mercy" he muttered

Pearl folded her fists, sudden sweat rolling down her backline

"Get it off, or you'll fuçking hate yourself" he finished up and walked away the other direction.

Pearl swallowed, then she turned, staring at his devilish backside till he went out of sight.

She left too, then Rook and Rue appeared from the opposite restroom.

He got new artificial teeth implant already.

"We should make sure she never comes back from the trip" Rue said.

"I was ordered to torment her, not kill. Get that into your dry skull" Rook said sharply, and she rolled eyes as he walked out.

"You can't tell me what to do" she mumbled.

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7PM*

The campus lights are perfectly on when Pearl drove into the park, and she sighed.

She had to pack a small bag hurriedly when she got home earlier, and she's hoping she's not late yet for the room number collection.

Her friends almost wounded her with calls and messages already.

She's looking forward to the trip anyways.

She came out of the car and opened the trunk to get her bag, but then all the lights in the park suddenly went off, leaving total darkness.

"What's going...

She was pushed to the ground by someone before she could finish, and her eyes widened in the dark.

She stood, but she was pushed again from the dark.

Whoever this is, he definitely had this planned very well cos she's not friends with darkness at all, and fear suddenly clawed her.

She shifted back on her butt, looking up at the dark figure in front of her.

"Pl..please..." She begged shakily

The last time this shaky pleads left her mouth was when uncle Richard was on top of her back then.

That dreadful night...the night she experienced real fear.

It's not happening again, right?

The fear clawed deeper...

"Pl...plea..se" she stuttered again, and the black figure shot something at her.

Definitely, it's a tranquilizer.

It got her on the arm, and she slumped unconsciously on the ground.

The person dragged her body out of the park, going all the way into the buildings.

It's trenchcoat and Vans again...the one who picked the umbrella from the stadium.

He dragged her into one of the buildings where a freezer is waiting.

He opened the freezer and flipped unconscious Pearl inside.

He got a pen and paper and wrote a note in Spanish...

~Mantente alejado de la vida de Levi~

Meaning: Stay out of Roonie's life.

He dropped it with Pearl in the freezer then locked it, keeping the key.

He plugged the freezer and turned on the switch, making sure it's working before leaving the room.

He locked the door room too, pocketing the keys before leaving.

A minute later, Pearl's eyes flew open in the freezer, and they widened when she saw where she is.

She read the note and started hitting the freezer body repeatedly and desperately for freedom.

"Hell no...no!!!"

Ice started forming on her open skin, and her knees began freezing to the fridge floor.

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Ice started forming on her open skin, and her knees began freezing to the fridge floor.

She quickly raised her knees, making sure she stayed in a squatting position so her flesh made no contact with the freezer surface.

She looked up, and merely seeing the yellow light in the freezer and the naked wire beside it made her heart feel like someone dropped it in a bowl of acid.

She stayed still since any movement from her might just get her electrocuted and no one will ever find her corpse.

All she can do is pray and hope for a mercifully journey to heaven __ or hell.

She has never felt this insane cold before, all her life.

The freezer got colder by the seconds, and her fear magnified with it.

She tried to close her eyes and shut out the episode trying to creep in, but she wasn't successful cos she fell into another episode immediately.

FLASHBACK ~ AGE TEN*

Pearl's dad embarked on his usual business trip early today, so it's just young Pearl and her Ma in the house.

Mrs. Wilson would have followed her husband, but leaving Pearl in care of the maids is a task she finds cumbersome to do, so she just had to stay.

She's in the kitchen, her hair in a smooth french braid as she tried to make chocolate smoothie for Pearl.

She has always liked the kitchen despite being from a rich family herself. She loves cooking.

Pearl is in the living room, sitting on the couch with no care in the world as she watched her favorite movie (Titanic)

She watched it countless times already, and she never gets bored.

There are lots of half-eaten apples around her...her handiwork, then a mess of popcorn on the ground from her popcorn bowl.